Isaiah 59:2

But your avonot (iniquities) have separated you and Eloheichem, 1 and your chattot (sins) have concealed His face from you, 1 that He will not hear. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

In Context

1Behold, the Yad Hashem is not too short, that it cannot save; 1 neither His ozen (ear) too kaved (hard, insensitive, heavy, dull) that it cannot hear; 1

3For your hands are defiled and polluted with dahm, 1 and your fingers with avon (iniquity); 1 your lips have spoken sheker, 1 your leshon (tongue) hath muttered avlah (perverseness, wickedness, iniquity, lashon hora). 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:19And when Hashem saw it, He spurned them, 1 because of the provoking of His banim, and of His banot. 1

1 Samuel 4:3And when HaAm were come into the machaneh, the Ziknei Yisroel said, Why hath Hashem defeated us today before the Pelishtim (Philistines)? Let us bring the Aron Brit Hashem out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the palm of oyeveinu (our enemies).

Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, 1 I will hide Mine eyes from you; 1 yea, when ye make many tefillah, 1 I will not hear; 1 your hands are full of damim. 1

Isaiah 57:17For the avon (iniquity) of his covetousness 1 was I in wrath, and struck him; + 57:17 the wicked 1 I hid, and was in wrath, 1 and he + 57:17 the wicked went on shovav (backsliding) 1 in the derech of his lev (heart). 1

Jeremiah 5:25Your avonot (iniquities) have turned away these things, 1 and your chatta'ot (sins) have deprived hatov from you. 1

Ezekiel 39:24According to their tumah and according to their peysha'im have I dealt with them, and hid My face from them.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak… Read the whole commentary →

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